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FORWORD Julie n J. Pros kaue r. auth or of "Spo ok Croo ks:' state d that noth ing sells as well in magi c as 'gho stsl' Duri ng a magi cian' s conv entio n (back in the ck 1940 's). a spir itua l medium was hired to attra were they when ing the pres s. The pres s came runn noti fied that a sean ce woul d be held . Need less to say, the medium made the head lines . Ghos ts are good busi ness . If you can 'rais e' a ghos t, the pres s and the curio us publ ic will beat a path to your door . It appe ars that sean ces are back in vogu e. hics, have The fact is that sean ces, like the psyc le and inab fash the for alwa ys been an attra ctio n pres s. For that reaso n the Houd ini seanc e will alwa ys be popu lar. It is a head liner . Best Wish es and happy Haun ting,

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The year: 1856. The Tuileries. Daniel Dunglas Home The greatest medium in the history of spiritualism. is holding a seance for the Royal Court of Napoleon 1111 During the seance Home reads the minds of the ~mperor and the Empress and answers their questions. A hand materializes. Another phantom hand appears from under the table, picks up a pencil and writes the name 'Napoleon!' The room shakes and the walls tremble! Heavy tables and other furniture move and are lifted, etc., etc. into history. At other seances, Home is levitated, elongated, plays with live coals, etc. {;,~ "~wl')i:!l~ ";;~;-n li'!~!I1'~' N,il' Ci'N ~:::I"'i'Ntl:!l ~n~n 010 'N"'~ The yearl 1877. Berlin. For there appeared to them a horse with a t~lTible rider. Crowds are rushing I fI Maccabees 3/251 with money in hand for a private sitting with world famous New York Medium. Dr. Henry Slade. Slade holds his private seances in broad daylight. The sitting lasts only 15 minutes, but not a second is lost. As soon as the client sits down the phenomena occur and are continuous. Spirit knocks are heard. Furniture is levitated to the ceiling and then come crashing down behind the sitter. A third hand appears from under the table and throws things about. An accordian under the table plays music while the medium and the sitter hold hands! The spectator's chair is levitated while he ')';I

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THE CENTAURS ....• cont. is sitting on it. His clothing are tugged and he is pinched. Messages appear on slates in answer to the sitter's questions! The number of mediums, saints and charlatans creating miracles is endless. Many have elongated their bodies, inflated, and levitated to the wonder of the beholders. The reader may rationalize that these episodes could only happen 100 years ago and that they do no fit into our present enlighten age. Not sol Today seances are as popular with the fashionable gentry as they have ever been. The year. 1976. Hollywoods most famous seer, Peter Hurkos, is giving a private reading to a famous screen personality. The sitter is told not to say anything, Peter will do all the talking. The sitter then gets a life-span reading with many intimate details of his life that the seer could not know other then through his psychic powers I The year. 1980. Medium Eugene Burger is in great demand by fashinable personalities seeking to experience a seance. If you want to be in one you had better get on the long waiting list. Like Elsa Maxwell says, "A seance is just too, too devine." BEHIND THE SCEN~SI Let's go behind the scenes and find out why the world beats a path to your door step if you were to put on a seance like Homes and Slade did. and Hurkos and Eugene. First of all these amazing people give their audiences a good run for their money. Like we read about Slade, not a second was lost. It was one thrill after the other. The one sitter or the nine or twelve sitters in a seance are entertained in exactly the same fashion as if they were sitting in a theatre. The seance starts with a fast surprise, then more miracles happen and then their is a delightly climax. It is like a musical scale that starts slow and then gains speed and momentum and proceeds to a delightful ending. In the case of Slade, the appearance of a message on a slate which was a direct answer to the sitters question was the climaxl THE SHCRETS 1 I

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How do the mediums make a house shake? Many witnesses in Home's seances said publicly that while Home was in a trance, the very walls of the house shook and trembledl. The same thing has been said about other mediums. A medium can not make a house shake or tremble or rattle unless he happens to be in a house that does shake, tremble or rattlel The fact of the matter is that practically all houses shake and rattle and make a thousand other noises that go unnoticed by the

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THE CENTAURS .••.•• qont •••.••. occupants simply because they never listened for them. The medium simply listens for these noices, shakes or tremblings and calls attention to them or have someone else do so and the medium takes credit. The amazing thing about this is that seances usually take place at about the same time that the houses start to crunch and rattlel Seances usually take place shortly after sundown or after dark. At about this time all matter commences to cool off from the sun rays and starts to contract. The seance also lends itself for listening. During the darkened seance, your ears are most alert. and the smallest noise may sound like thunder. A good fast way to making the walls and floors rattle is to have someone secretly lower the thermostat about 5 degrees. About one minute or less after that you will hear the ducts, floor boards and walls crunching as they contract. However the thermostat should be raised again soon after. You can also take credit for the cold air. During the seance have one of your shills whisper "The walls are shakingt" The other sitters who want to have something exciting to talk about later are surely to mention that the very walls were trembling. Another bit of good business is a falling toilet seat. When a toilet seat that had previously been raised, falls in the dead of night or during a seance, it sounds like somebody dropped a truck in the middle of the floorl And if someone goes to investigate the noise he finds all in proper order. Now this is noise that can be made on command. Just fix the toilet seat with a string so that at the proper time the seat will fall when the string is pulledl MOVING FURNITURE. Many witnesses spoke of some very strange and inexplicable phenomena that happened during one of Home's seances. Many said that very heavy pianoes moved across the floor. Heavy tables were levitated and mounted one on top another. These heavy objects needed several men to move them. Many of these claims have never been solved by magician's. One would have to see the event taking place in order to attempt solving the mystery. All we can say as initiates is that it was not what it seemed but a feat of seance conjuring. Home was accused at the time of making things move only in the home of a friendS Slade's levitations and telekinesis is easier to solve. Usually as soon as the sitter was escorted to his seat and sitted, a piece of furniture, a chair or small table apparently was levitated up to the ceiling while no one was near and them it crashed to the floor behind the sitter! This is quite easy to duplicate. A small chair or table is raised with a string to the ceiling. When the sitter comes in his attention is directed elsewhere. Once he sits down, the string is cut loose and the chair comes crashing down. Slade. would then state that the spirits are always playing tricks. The sltter assumes that the chair had indeed floated to the ceilillg! At the climax of the seance, if the sitter appeared to be unimpressed. Slade would cause the sitters chair to levitate with him in itt

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This chair levitation trick is well known by magicians today. BUT Slade made a masterpiece out of it. The trick is that if a sitter sits squarly on a chair with his feet flat on the floor, and some pressure is applied to the back of the chair, towards the sitter, the chair will levitate upwards with the sitter in it. Of course his feet are stil on the floor, but the sitter is indeed puzzled by it. THE CHAIR LEVITATION BY SLADE. Slade would sit on another chair to the left of the sitter. He would then use his left hand and arm to misdirect the sitter. He pretended to doing hypnotic and magnetic passes with his left hand and arm while his right hand was pushing forward on the back of the chair. At the same time Slade could slip his foot under the rear leg of the chair and later his left foot under the forward left leg of the chair to further create the illusion of levitation. Slade, of course, did this trick with small people. He faced the sitter as he sat to his left. He pret,ended that it was the left hand that was causing the levitation. FLOATING HANDS, Reports of disembodied hands materializing in the seance room are common. These hands usually appear during a black seance. The hands are luminous and usually pick up a pencil and write answers to questions. The feat is easy to do. The hand of the medium or an assistant is painted with luminous paint while the rest of his arm is clothed in black coverings. During the seance only the hand is seen. Slade, however, materialized his hands in broad daylightl Slade as a rule worked very close to the sitter. Only inches away and usually held the sitters hands. While so doing and while Slade's hands were in full sight, a third hand would come in sight, too far away from Slade to associate the hand with him. BUT both Slade and Home were half-baked contortionists. They could do wonders with their feet. And so could Houdini and many other top magicians. Slade could use his feet like hands. He could pick up a piece of chalk and write with his toes. He could pick up books from the edge of the table and throw them up in the air. His favorite trick was to hand the sitter a slate under the table and then while Slade's hands were on top of the table, the slate would be pulled out of the sitter's hand and then fly out from under the table or peek over the edge on the opposite side! Slade, Home and Keeler would pinch the sitter with their feet and pull on their clothing. Imagination, curiosity and expectation are rampant in the seance room. So the medium does not have to do too much pinching. Just a touch here and there will create undue commotion. Slade would materialize a hand by wearing a rubber hand glove on his foot. He would also play the accordian in the same fashion. All this sounds most ridiculous to the new student but keep in mind that these characters became world famous and still are today!

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ELONGATIONS, Elongations are rare but not uncommon. Some saints and many mediums have demonstrated elongations of their bodies, arms and legs and hands. 50 witnesses saw Home elongate his body 11 inchesl Mrs. Florence Cook, medium, (1902) elongated while someone held her feet on the floor and a second person held her shouldersl The person holding her shoulders said that she was dragging him up to the Geilingl However, this stunt was done in total darkness. On Jan. 17th, 1882, magician Harry Keller had a similar experience in Calcutta when he attended a seance held by famous English medium Eglinton. While Keller was holding the medium's left hand during the seance, the medium levitated so high that Keller had to jump onto the table to keep a hold on his hand I Keller stated in writing that he was totally mystified by the experience and had no idea how to explain it by natural means. The fact is that Keller at that time knew nothing about seances and the tricks of the mediums. Later Keller became conversant with mediumship to the extant that he could challenge any medium. The effects in the seance room are caused by such simple means that the effect they produce are indeed amazing. Many s~atements made by witnesses who saw Home elongate his body are incredible. But that is usually the case. ~very witness adds his own imaginings to what he experienced and what he recounts becomes impossible. We do have a statement made by a sincere witness that almost lets the cat out of the bag. Mr. H.D. Jencken in "Human Nature" in 1869 stated, "The right leg of Mr. Home was then elongated about six inches, then shortened, the foot literally shrinking into the trousers. I carefully examined the leg from the ankle joint to the hip. The limb felt shrunk and withered and gradually elongated, it felt like as if it were being expended by air being inflated." Doesn't that sound like the reaction from a ballon being blown in the dark? Mr. Home did not tell us how he did his thing, and since he was never exposed we can only guess at the method. The same person Mr. Jencken also measured the elongation of Home's hand by tracing the hand on paper with a pencil. This of course was also done in the dark and again Mr. Home could have resorted to an inflated dummy hand that elongated and grew and then shrunk. FLASH. Rumores are again surfacing that Houdini was murdered in his hospital bed. It is claimed that some of the persons who know this ~ay still be alivel FLASH. Magic Dealer Al Cohen is selling a small digital clock that forces the time. $40.00

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simp ly fabu lous! The techn ique you are abou t to read here is know n only by a were ago) s Thes e secr ets at one time (100 year test conall and any r unde few mediums who could produ ce raps r birth thei in raps ce produ ditio ns. That means that they could could tors stiga inve the by day suits l And no amount of searc hing disc lose the secr et. spir it raps The inve stiga tors who stud ied the phenomena of inabl el Raps imag place every heard raps produ ced in prac tical ly , musi cal nets cabi , trees s, were heard on table s, floo rs, wall at heard also were raps e instr umen ts and even on cloth . Thes ellal umbr an the tip of a penc il, wooden rods and a 'rap ' THE DECIBEL RATIO. Ama zingl y, the noic e factoisr of nific ant. insig tion, stiga inve in the seanc e room or durin g an nt of amou the , raps for n The whol e idea seems to be to liste e sledg a as loud as be can raps noic e is imm ateri all Spir it ng hitti r wate of drop a as quite hammer hitti ng the wall s or as ever the window pane or a pin drop ping on the floo r. No one r. facto e both ered to reco rd the noic bare hand s on the Raps can be produ ced simp ly by plac ing the the lay publ ic is h table (as will be shown) but stran gly enoug of a penc il or an ummore impr essed by raps produ ced at the tip il, espe ciall y if brel lal The use of a common obje ct like a s penc throw a thick er the penc il belon gs to the spec tator , seem ticto rods screw driveil of myst ery on the pres enta tion. Plas rema ins and the favo rite vers can also produ ce raps BUT the penc il since it is so common and inno cent to all. ique has neve r THE SOUND INSTRUMENT. Most of the follo wing techn appe ared in prin t befo re. To get the most out ofandit, we need a sound box. Take any smal l wooden box your deco rate it if you wish . This box sits on pens~ , pads r pape table and cont ains penc ils, etc. The box can also be used to cont ain readting card s and incen se. To make a sound instr umen out of the box simp ly open the lide a fract ion of an inch by stick ing a wooden matc h into the open ing. PRODUCING THE RAPS. Fig. 1 shows the corr ect erwaytips of hold ing the penc il. The thumb and firs t fing on the hold the penc il. The midd le fing erna il rests Fig. 1 ring The . sure pres t sligh back of the penc il with a and littl e finge r play no part . Plac e the poin t of the penc il on the cent er of the il top of the box. Now by moving the midd le fing erna il, raps will penc the of abou t 100t h of an inch agai nst the side that it can l smal so be heard l The movement of the fing erna il is

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for a dark . rain y nigh t, just perf ect ce with sean a and ks spoo ins, gobl ~hosts. . Eug ene Burg er. 38. med ium rare who has rhl' husk y. bear ded spir itua list, rian histo her, osop phil a as s v('ar ~p"IH 2" the s open ly slow tor. stiga 'lila psvchic inve thre e-sto ry lTl'akv door of hi~ anci ent. nsto n. fram e hom., at 210 Mai n St .. Eva with a and, . ther toge s Ill.' rubs his hand 15 belie vbeni gn smil t'. he lead s his band of the dust y ers acro ss the diml v lit fov('r. to . attic dark stair s that lead to the graz es Mr. Burg er, who se long curl y hair y to read all is ck, smo dark the coll ar of his uctio n of star in his Spir it The atre Co. 's prod In Gho sts?" "Ha unti ngs: Or Do You Beli eve It·~

ng at "Ha unti ngs " will be app eari Clu b ntry Cou and ort Res boy The Play July 30e Jun on . Wis in Lak e Gen eva. perf or4. All mat inee and eve ning lic. For man ces are ope n to the pub Chi cag o info rma tion , call 645 -930 0 in sin. Eug and 414 /248 -881 1 in Wis con his tabl e ing orm perf is also ene Ber ger wee k at mag ic act four eve ning s a nt, 50 aura rest new s eld' enfi Gre er Rog o. E. Oak in Chi cag is avai lThe "Ha unti ngs " sho w also ies. part ate priv for able and Nell But whe n two blac k cats -Ne d ing and land the ss acro oot e-sc nam by top of the at n coffi k hl:lc :I of t nPl'r h in fron

spiri ts are body is pret endi ng. Cert ainl y the wait ing lurk ing in the eave s up here , just ze. riali mate to n tatio for an invi rd card Ging erly we mak e our way towa one end of table chai rs plac ed in a circ le at ligh t com es the dam p cold attic . The only ll. roun d sma a on ering from a cand le flick out- bv table . The n sudd enly it goes p. jum all we itse lf?- and a sma ll "Ah ," we sigh colle ctive ly, as He begi ns spot ligh t focu ses on Mr. Burg er. lism in his to chan t the histo ry of spir itua soft, soot hing voice. e amo ng "In 1848 , the curi ous idea aros that they York New ate man y peop le in upst dead ," he wer e'in com mun icati on with the Som e reac tinto nes. "It caus ed a sens atio n! very idea The age. ed with thun dero us outr seem ed to dead the with ing icat mun com of sme ll of sorc ery and devi l wors hip. e were "Tw o year s later , in 1850 , ther and in e, alon Ohio in es circl 200 than mor e ed mov only not on icati 1852 spir it com mun cisc o, but a acro ss the cont inen t to San Fran beca me the Mrs. W. B. Hay den, of Bost on, to Eng land sail to ium first Ame rica n med elf was by the 1860 s. Que en Vict oria hers " ces. hold ing sean old woo d The n Mr. Burg er turn s to an calli ng the doll hous e on his left and star ts is doll hous e spiri ts from the woodwork. "Th ie Rigg s. a Mill Miss by was once own ed the 1800 s," sing er on the Lon don stag e in spir its in he expl ains . "It is said ther e were " are. still e it .. and may be ther ler lifts The mys tery unfo lds as Mr. Burt

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dlp, begins to chJnt and ium Gene Burger lights the cJn Fear grips the aud ienc e as med home. calls up spirits in his Evanston ches fearup fron t gasp s, "Oh . no!" and clut mom ents y profesersit univ a bell insid e and in the next few and at. thro her at fully bell off the people the of !> thos e spiri ts do inde ed lift the hand the ps sor ~ulps and clas time s, then whit e form floor ofth e hous e. It ring s a few sitti ng next to her as a filmy tllt' circl e. drop s. A dum b bell. begi ns to o:mc l' \\'ilcllv ahou t gobl ins our hair hing For the next 90 min utes , ghos ts, brus and us at blOWing kiss es ram choand spiri ts danc e thro ugh the prog er touc hes. tend with as the reog raph ed by Mr. Burg er. "Eii iii'" shri eks the prof esso r, time Mr. The re are no skep tics left by the ghos t grab s her foot. ." It's a to be an Burg er take s out "Syl via's hand Fort unat ely, the ghos t happ ens and e whit ky chal ir, affa e som soothsays he ghou lish grue so er's, Burg Mr. of old frien d velv et at but you, ten deco rate d with bits of lace and red frigh to t ingly , "We don' t wan spiri t loose up the wris t ... whe re it ends . ly unru an itely defin is e ther boar d Do not get Mr. Burg er plac es it on a woo den here . So brea the deep ly, plea se. to it. Slowand begi ns to whis per ques tion s t wan t to upse t it ... " don' we ... ted exci and code s and hoot s ly, the third fing er taps out the And he coos and purr s and hum ting out letand slips n swe rs, spel ling out word s, coun dow es settl wisp unti l the wild ters. n;'" eter into back n. agai And that 's whe n the ligh ts go out

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NOT B~ SEgN BY THE BYE. Sometimes the hand may be seen to quiver a bit but this can be atributed to the spirits also. Now the spectator can also hold the top of the pencil or just place his finger tip on it's top and the raps will be felt by him also. That will be about as loud a rap as you can produce with these means but keep in mind that it was these raps that converted many persons to a belief in the hereafterl You can also produce raps on top of your desk. Do it over the drawer. Also on a filing cabinet, on a guitar, etc. and of course you can do it on bare wood. Mediums produced raps with their bare hands as follows. The hands are placed on the table, fingertips touching. The left thumbnail is in direct contact with the surface of the table. The right thumb nail is touching the left thumbnail but not the table. Now by rubbibg the right thumb nail against theleft thumbnail the raps will ensue. But as I said before, you will get more reaction out of the pencil rapsl

Young mentalists starting out doing a mental show are annoyed when people come up after the show and ask for a private reading. The role of the mentalist in the public eye is associated with 'readings.' The mentalist displays powers far above and beyond that of the professional reader. Not only that but the mentalist has, by virtue of his training, a technique that far surpasses the technique of the professional reader. The professinal reader as a rule sticks to only one mode of reading. He or she reads the cards, or tea leaves or dead bones or what have you. Their art is their trade mark and they make a reputaion by it. The mentalist on the other hand is, in the eyes of the public, a super mental giant. Your lay audience believe that you can, with your mind be omniscient, cure sick people half-way around the world (these people are simply beautifull). etc., etc., s~ you had better ge~ with the readings. TH~ START, The best way to start giving readings is to take on the first person who asks you for one. Do whatever comes to your mind, like answering his most important question via the centertear or two questions via Gemel's Messages from Mental-ittes. Word will get around that you do private readings or you may pass the word around then you can go proffessional. The first thing to do is to look into the psychological and the Dante Lifespan Reading (sold by Micky Hades). TH~ PSYCHOLOGICAL R~ADING is indispensible to the mentalist. The novice finds it hard to believe that these readings fit everyone but that is exactly how it is. Simply because the listener will catch only the phrases to suit him and ignore the rest. Leonora ~. Piper became world famous by telling perfect strangers intimate details of their lives (see attached write-up) and all she was doing was delivering a clever psychological reading

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The Am.azing Feats of Woman Psychic Who By TIte Rev. WEll GARRISON

One of the most remarkable spiritualists who ever lived was Mrs. Leonora E. Piper, an American. For over 30 years her amazing powers as a medium were subjected to the most rigorous, exhaustive tests the minds of skeptics could devise. Not the slightest trace of trickery was ever found. Moreover, this extraordinary psychic asked no fees, never gave readings to the public for pay. She chose instead to work with scientists studying psychic phenomena, and received from her scientific sponsors only a modest allowance for living expenses. Mrs. Piper was only 28, a tall, slender young mother, when she was tested in 1887 by Dr. Richard Hodgson, head of the American Society for Psychical Research. He was frankly suspicious of her. His investigations had turned up so much fraud that he believed all mediums were fakes. His first step was to hire private detectives who watched Mrs. Piper around the clock to try to catch her getting advance information about her subjects. They were forced to conclude she did not. Hodgson .then supervised seances with her which he rigidly controlled. For sitters, he chose people the medium had never heard of, and introduced them to her under false names.

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"Time after time, she astonished us by telling perfect strangers intimate details," he reported. "Frequently they themselves were ignorant of the information she imparted. Always, however, when diligent inquiry was made it was found ~at Mrs. Piper had given correct detail." From a skeptic, Hodgson became an ardent believer in the medium. "She is in possession of a power or powers not yet explained," he declared. The great American psychologist,

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William James, who had persu Hodgson to examine Mrs. Piper, : "In the trances of this medi.um I not resist the conviction that kr edge appears which she has n gained by ordinary waking US4 her eyes and ears and wits." Hodgson sent Mrs. Piper to Eng to be tested by the renowned Sir OJ Lodge, professor of physics at Lj pool University. At one session, Lodge showed h gold watch and asked her what could tell about it. The watch been left to him by an uncle na. Jerry who had died nearly 20 y, earlier. "It belonged to your uncle," said. "lIis name was Jerry." She that Jerry had once had a prized session, a snakeskin. Then a voice that said it was Jefl speaking through her control, tal, a boyhood incident in which he most drowned in a creek, and of regret over once killing a cat Smith's Field. Lodge, who had never heard of II incidents, checked with ,mother ur Robert, who said the snakeskin the near-drowning were factual. Bu had never heard about the cat. At this point a third uncle, Fn was consulted. Yes, he said, he been there \¥hen Jerry killed that - and it was in Smith's Field. Dr. James H. Hyslop of Colum University stated flatly, "This worr actually does communicate with spit of the dead." But her powers gr

weaker and then vanished in 1911. Four years later they returned full force. Shortly afterward she c( rectly predicted in detail the dea of Lodge's son. She continued working with r searchers until her retirement in 19: ~t age 65. In 1950, at age 91, she dief little known to the public, her legac some 3,000 pages in the journals f psychic research societies.

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these and hitti ng the nail on the head some times . But it was edl 'some time' hits that the pres s notic tes of psyPete r Hurk os charg es a hefty fee for a few minu noth ing. say to n perso the chol ogic al read ing. It pays to tell he and ing noth said and Peop le late r say, "I just sat there told me my whol e lifel " ings (Dan te Once the men talis t mast ers the psyc holo gical read time s all at it use can he Lifes pan read ing is the best) then . stage the even when answ ering ques tions from used at anyti me GRAPHOLOGY, Grap holog y pays off as it can be an rt in it. to adve ntage . BUT the men talis t need not becomey areexpe rudim ents the All the men talis t need s to know abou t ~apholog menthe ver of the art. This can be gotte n from a $2 book . Howe tali st must prete nd that he knows it all. ing and All that anyo ne need s to analy se a senta nce ofldwrit told to be the sign ature are the rudim ents. The sitte r shou get my to et write a senta nce like , "I am walk ing down t-hp "tre his sign to horse and bugg y from the carri age hous e." And then what know you that name . This impr esses every one as it is a sign ly simp , given be you are d~ing. From that a shor t anal ysis canrs lean , etc. by apply ing the rudim ents as to how the lette a board with the If you work in your den it is well to post of study that you lette rs shown in Fig. 2. This show s the exte nt r that you have have put into the subj ect. You infor m the sitte abetl made a simi lar study of ever ylett er in the alph Here are the , , .-mean ings of each squa re a 1. Over beari ng vani ty and at ___ .. t.:._ 3. 5. time s preju dice . r--- ...- - - - --- --- - --A goss ip. 2. A well controll ed attit ude & balan ced emo,. ,. 9. It). IS. tions . J. A fathe r figure . A prote cti..V? & auth f'rrita ti ve na ture . 1.2 . IJ 15 I/. ----------- _ 1---'' 4. An exer tive pers ,nali ty, enthus~astict a desire to get ahea d. 1.1. 1.9 .____ ___ 16 11. - - - - Forc efull will - . -f----- -- -. . - --powe r.

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show s 2). Gay flori shes show a perso n who likes fun and also a bit of roma nce. na24. Amb ition and lead ersh ip. A stron g comp eteti ve perso lity. 25. This perso n can keep a secr et. He unde rstan ds huma nity. . Many As can be seen , graph ology can be a life time study ols scho seve ral volum ns have been writ ten on it and there are s. of thou ght that diffe r in thei r inter pret ation abou t graph ology One good thing that a men talis t shou ld know exac tly the same way is that no one ever sign s his of her name his age, his mood and twice lA pers on's hand writi ng chan ges ewith to day. Yesl you day from heal th. A pers on's writ ing may chang chan ged. has ity onal pers can tell it is his writi ng but his pers on's a tell not can Some grap hoan alyst s say that they holo gists . psyc not are le peop futur e by thei r hand writi ng. Thes e abou t thing some tell ly sure A men talis t, by his train ing, can is n perso a If d. ahea the pers on's futu re simp ly by look ing of out miss to going is he sting y, for exam ple you know that many good thing s, etc. the A pers on's pers onal ity is defi nitel y reve aled throu gh poin t of his penc ill "Som ethin g of a man' s char acter may be conj ectur ed from his hand writi ng." Sir Walt er Scot t "Bew are of the man Who' s writi ng sway s as the reed in the wind ." Conf ucius

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can also be a CARD R~DINGSI Read ing the futu re by the card s card s. That is, with lifet ime study . Many men talis ts 'ad- lib' are actu ally givin g they prete nd to be read ing the card s but the menif n, reaso thp sitte r a psyc holo gical read ing. For that ing play g usin talis t has to ad-l ib he must stay away from card s or the Taro . rts at read Ther e are many lay pers on's aroun d who are expe you in an place may r ing card s and espe ciall y the Taro . The sitte . bing ad-li are emba rrasi ng posi tion if she disco vers that youof his own that no The men talis t shou ld have a spec ial deck Japa nese card s. of one else can read . Your auth or uses a deck wood en box. They a Thes e are smal l waxed card s that come in bird s, flos, tree meas ure 1 by 2 inch es and have pictu res of and of cour se them see wers . etc. The sitte r is amus ed when they no one else can read them .

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CARD READINGS .••• CONTI .••• SEVEN. Anxieties, the making of a new resolution. EIGHT. Approaching disappointment. NINE. A bad omen. News of loss or failure. TEN. Misery and sorry, loss of liberty. JACK. A young man. possibly a student in law or medicine. an ill-bred young fellow. QUEEN. A widow or an older lady. KING. A dark man. possibly a widower. untrustworthy. THE COMBINATIONS APPEARING SIDE BY SIDE. 4 Aces. Perils, loss of money or honor, separations. J ACES. Brief anxieties with good tidings to follow. 2 ACES. Some sort of partnership. 4 KINGS. Adancement, wealth, honor. 3 KINGS. Something of great importance is to be started. 2 KINGS. A commercial alliance. 4 QUEENS. A social affair. ~ QUEENS. A gathering of friends. 2 QUEENS. a talk between frien s. With secrets given away. 4 JACKS. A hilarious party. J JACKS. Trouble among friends possIbly from gossip. 2 JACKS. Loss of some sort, possibly theft. 4 TENS. Exceptionally good luck, in store regarding present understandIngs. J TENS. Failure and trouble through ' . ~gal proceedings. 2 Th"NS. A lucky break coming. 4 NINES. Unexpected occurances. NINES. A most favorable sign. Increased prosperity, good health, en oyment of life. 2 NINES. Some sort-of success in commercial affairs. 4 EIGHTS. New kind of occupation or a short trip. J EIGHTS. Thoughts regarding marriage and love. 2 EIGHTS. A short love affair. 4 SEVENS. Foes working in secret against you. J SEVENS. Unhappiness of loss of friends. 2 SEVENS. Love that is reciprocated. PALM READING AND ASTROLOGY AND NUMEROLOGY. These arts are very ancient and will be with us till the end of time. Many people belive in them. The mentalist must. of course, become conversant with them. Again it is best to just learn the rudiments. Just enough to carryon an inteligent discussion and perhaps give a short reading. THB MASTER READ Let's say that you want to make a name and have people beating a path to your door. So you give the sitters 'a run for their money." The sitter is usherd into your den. He hears soft beautiful music barely audible. He (or she) also smells delightful incense burning and the smell of sandalwood is everywhere. The walls are of course covered with many fine paintings of the Tarot, the Zodiac, famous magicians and mindreaders. Di~lomas and certificates of the secret orders of the initiates of the occult. Pictures of the master in far parts of the world. Bibles and books of wisdom are on your desk plus fire bowls, etc. As soon as the visitor is seated, he is told that he is indeed most fortunate as he is now in the forbidden den of occult magic.

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EFFECT. On the seance table, the medium places a black chest that is pad-locked. The medium says that inside the chest is the severed right hand of Adrian Borlsover! It is not the real hand but a replica, yet, like the original it displays fits of inteligence. The chest is then opened and the dummy hand is taken out and shown all _around. It is indeed deadl The hand is then placed back into the chest together with a piece of paper and a pencil. The chest is pad locked and a screen is placed around its back but the front is left in full view. Strange things then begin to happen. The hand knocks on the inside of the chest in answer to questions. It writes out an answer to a question put to it by the sitters. The medium cautions that once the hand becomes active anything can happen. The chest is then opened to check on the written message. The paper contains an inteligent answer to the question. Then while everyone is looking the hand shows itself around the edge of the chest and it begins to beckon and jump and scratch and even throw things about. The lights go out and the medium locks the hand back into the chest I End of antics. TH~ S~CR~TI You will need a dummy hand. It should be one that is modeled after your own hand. These are not hard to get. Many magic dealers have excess to how to get this done. The chest has a back panel that opens out. If possible the chest should have short legs about! inch high, to obviate the thought that there is a hole in the bottom of the chest and table. The sides of the chest and the inside must be painted dead black. The creen that is p aced behind the chest (for the purpose of keeping everyone away) should be a J-fold screen or slate that has a secret panel that opens out just large enough to stick an arm through it. TH~ WORKING should now be obvious. When the performer places the dummy hand back into the chest and locks it he also opens out the back panel of the chest and lets it fallon the table. Since everything is painted black including the mat on which the chest

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rests, the panel will not be seen. The lights may also be dimmed if necessary. The medoum next places the J-fold screen behind the chest as the hand begins to knock and get noisy. The medium opens out the secret flap on the screen behind the chest and sticks his hand in and takes out the dummy hand and replaces it with his own. Everything is possible after that. The hand writes, peeks out throws out the pencil and whatever else is near, etc. The hand can stick out its fingers at command. It can crawl out onto the table and crawl back into the box. The medium's arm is of course covered with black cloth from the wrist back. Those readers that own the small Itrail'htenl out of the bendinl' politic..n all four. The door is cut in the front B and out the job. piece. Phenomena portable spirit Varioul for exchange are euHy For the production of th'! lady a .peiIlultrated cial ,adget ia made. The f:>ur side. are An effeeth'. illaion with the ape· &eeommodated in the table, cabinet may be cial 'Mivantal't! that may removed and in place box ad· with the bunch of ftowen. shown ")n any stage. Thi. box telelcopic A. It haa The four side. fit into the Ilota around able to incorpothe top of the "nci the tid on a Hd on the inaide section which haa a catch on the in.ide. rate 'The hand By Robert Harhin Eat'h section i, attached to the next Adrian" into itt one by tapea. 10 that the one dr. . . the It with the ,Jtmo.t ffogr"t that I P 188

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